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facility

Part of Speech: noun

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            1.                                           The                                                         quality                                                         of                                                         being                                                         easily                                                         performed;                                                         freedom                                                         from                                                         difficulty;                                                         ease;                                                         as,                                                         the                                                           facility                                                         of                                                         an                                                         operation.                                    

            2.                                           Ease                                                         in                                                         performance;                                                         readiness                                                           proceeding                                                         from                                                         skill                                                         or                                                         use;                                                         dexterity;                                                         as,                                                         practice                                                         gives                                                           a                                                         wonderful                                                           facility                                                         in                                                         executing                                                           works                                                         of                                                         art.                                    

            3.                                           Easiness                                                         of                                                         access;                                                           complaisance;                                                         affability.                                    

            4.                                           Easiness                                                         to                                                         be                                                         persuaded;                                                         readiness                                                         or                                                           compliance; -                                                           usually                                                         in                                                           a                                                         bad                                                         sense;                                                         pliancy.                                    

            5.                                           That                                                         which                                                           promotes                                                         the                                                         ease                                                         of                                                         any                                                         action                                                         or                                                         course                                                         of                                                         conduct;                                                         advantage;                                                         aid;                                                         assistance; -                                                           usually                                                         in                                                         the                                                         plural;                                                         as,                                                           special                                                         facilities                                                         for                                                           study.

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But so compact a body of empire, so fitted in all the parts for mutual support, with a frontier by Nature and Art so impenetrable, with such facility of breaking out with irresistible force from every quarter, was never seen in such an extent of territory, from the beginning of time, as in that empire which the Jacobins possessed in October, 1795, and which Boissy d'Anglas, in his report, settled as the law for Europe, and the dominion assigned by Nature for the Republic of Regicide. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
They were unanimous in saying that, with the small and exhausted force under his orders, no further operation could be undertaken for the conquest of Valencia, but that the little army should post itself in such a position as might afford the greatest facility for protecting the king. - "The Bravest of the Brave or, with Peterborough in Spain", G. A. Henty.
We must strain every existing armament- producing facility to the utmost. - "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.

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